The dogs of to-day are intelligent, affectionate, beautiful, and highly endowed with the field qualities of speed, style, staunchness, and delicacy of olfactory to detect the lurking quarry. Dog and gun are helping to make us a nation of good shots, of hearty, stalwart manhood, never more at home than when camping upon an open prairie or walking with steady stride from morning until night over valleys and wooded hills, where grouse and quail abound. (The Century, a popular quarterly, Vol. 31, issue #1, November 1885)
